All chichi synonyms
chi·chi
C c adj chichi
- swank — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- arty — Someone who is arty seems very interested in drama, film, music, poetry, or painting. People often describe someone as arty when they want to suggest that the person is pretentious.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- pompous — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- splashy — making a splash or splashes.
- frilly — covered with or marked by frills: Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.
adjective chichi
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- over-the-top — the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. Synonyms: zenith, acme, peak, pinnacle, vertex. Antonyms: bottom, base, foot, lowest point.
- too much — an excess of
- uncool — not self-assured or relaxed: He felt very uncool, making a speech to strangers.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
- ott — Over the top.
- showy — making an imposing display: showy flowers.
noun chichi
- style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- smartness — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- dressy — appropriate to somewhat formal occasions: an outfit that's a little too dressy for office wear.
- stylish — characterized by or conforming to style or the fashionable standard; fashionably elegant; smart or chic: She wore a very stylish gown to the inaugural ball.
- cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.